By Laura Morgan: On August 7, 2013, a Louisiana Court Of Appeals ruling says that one husband’s medical educational debts prior to marriage is separate from community property, therefore the wife was entitled to reimbursement of one-half of the funds used during the marriage for his debt.

Provisions in prenuptial agreement defining property as marital or separate were too vague and indefinite to reserve income such as earnings, interest, and dividends generated by wife’s separate property as her separate property.